Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Inapplicable.

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  • adjective Inapplicable.

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  • adjective Not applicable

Etymologies

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un- +‎ applicable

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Examples

  • But it is possible, that satire may not do much good: men may rise in their affections to their follies, as they do to their friends, when they are abused by others: it is much to be feared, that misconduct will never be chased out of the world by satire; all therefore that is to be said for it is, that misconduct will certainly be never chased out of the world by satire, if no satires are written: nor is that term unapplicable to graver compositions.

    The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 Edward Young 1724

  • The comparison he tries to make is so obviously unapplicable that I don't see that it is necessary to bother about it.

    What planet is "America" magazine living on? 2009

  • The Chinese demo, like the SDI tests, is completely unapplicable to the real world.

    Obama Seeks Space Weapon Ban - NASA Watch 2009

  • As an adult man joyfully reacquainting himself with the delights of marital canoodling, and using a language in which “going to bed” or “sleeping with” is a euphemism for sex, Gillespie dismissed bedtime prayers as unapplicable to his real life.

    Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

  • As an adult man joyfully reacquainting himself with the delights of marital canoodling, and using a language in which “going to bed” or “sleeping with” is a euphemism for sex, Gillespie dismissed bedtime prayers as unapplicable to his real life.

    Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

  • As an adult man joyfully reacquainting himself with the delights of marital canoodling, and using a language in which “going to bed” or “sleeping with” is a euphemism for sex, Gillespie dismissed bedtime prayers as unapplicable to his real life.

    Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

  • Early on in the blog, people where trying to cast doubt as to the legitimacy of the picture, due to a "test" that they did on Myth Busters. unfortunately it was quite unapplicable, and those guys on that show seldom create a legitimate test environment anyways.

    Why Rifle Makers Go Gray 2006

  • If you insist upon it, I will send the paper: I have told you what I think, and will therefore say no more on that head; but I will transcribe a passage which I found t'other day in Petronius, and thought not unapplicable to you: "Omnium herbarum succos Democritus expressit; et ne lapidum virgultorumque vis lateret, aetatem inter experimenta consumpsit."

    The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757

  • And the lives of my friends/clique/some dick I met online/sociopath (delete unapplicable).

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • And the lives of my friends/clique/some dick I met online/sociopath (delete unapplicable).

    Army Rumour Service 2009

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